The two were talking, when they suddenly heard the horn sounding on the side of the breaking army, Yang Sheng's expression was grim, and he immediately said to Liang Yizhang who was not far away: "Lord Liang, the thief is about to attack, judging from the situation, it is coming to my west gate." ”

Liang Yizhang was commanding Minzhuang to carry rolling wood and stones to the city wall to deal with the attack of the invading army, and quickly ran up to the city head to take a look when he heard the sound.

Hou Defu also raised his binoculars to look, only to see a commotion in the army, and several military formations of thousands of people moved in line, approaching Guide City. In addition to shieldmen and spearmen, there were many people pushing heavy cannons.

"It's artillery, I didn't expect the thieves to have so many artillery, and there is even a Franco General Cannon!" Yang Sheng exclaimed.

There were nearly 100 pieces of artillery thrown out by the breaking army, including 35 Franc machine guns and more than 20 large mortar guns. The most terrifying thing is that there are four Hongyi cannons, which are dismantled from the city wall of Luoyang, this cannon is not the original import, but an imitation, and the original imported ones are all going to deal with the Manchu Qing, so these four Hongyi cannons are even heavier, weighing three tons, that is, six thousand catties.

Anyway, there was no shortage of manpower in the army, so they moved such a big man from Luoyang to Kaifeng, and this time to Guide.

The other artillery pieces were captured from the Ming army of the "transport captain", and this time it was a siege battle to return to Germany, so half of the artillery of the invading army was here.

The appearance of the Hongyi cannon frightened the officers and soldiers defending the city, Yang Sheng said: "The range of the general's cannon can reach two miles, the cannon is five catties, and the power is endless. ”

"What then? Can we just watch the shots? Liang Yizhang said to Hou Defu eagerly: "Brigade Commander Hou has a countermeasure, but your artillery is an opponent?" ”

Liang Yizhang was also asked to go to the doctor for a sudden illness, judging from the block, the artillery of the security army is not one-tenth the size of the Hongyi cannon, and the caliber is smaller than the Hongyi cannon, which does not look very reliable.

The caliber of the Hongyi cannon is 130 mm, and the caliber of the Type 37 gun is 80 mm, which is indeed much smaller.

Hou Defu put down the binoculars and said, "Lord Liang, if you want to deal with the artillery of the thieves, you don't necessarily have to use artillery,"

Liang Yizhang asked puzzledly: "What is that for?" ”

Hou Defu pointed to the Type 85 heavy machine gun erected on the city wall and said, "You can use this." ”

"This, this, isn't this a firebolt? Use the firecracker to deal with the thief's Hongyi cannon? Liang Yizhang thought Hou Defu was joking.

Hou Defu smiled: "That's right, Lord Liang, General Yang, please wait and see." ”

Although Liang Yizhang didn't believe it, he could only choose to believe it, pinning his hopes on the miraculous achievements of the Tiance Army in the past, hoping that this security army would also be unexpected.

The firing range of the Hongyi cannon is two miles, but in the field battles of this time and space, but because of the smoothbore artillery, the artillery battles usually take place within three hundred meters, otherwise it is not accurate at all.

However, the siege of the city is different, the goal of the city is large, and this distance can be extended to about five hundred meters, that is, one mile.

The Type 37 artillery of the Security Forces is also a smoothbore gun, which has been improved to have a range of 2.5 kilometers. The Type 37 gun has basic gun aiming and ranging technology, which is far more accurate than all smoothbore guns in the plane.

After all, the Type 37 artillery is a smoothbore gun, and it needs to cover the artillery bombardment in order to destroy all the artillery of the invading army in a short time. Because the 15th Brigade arranged the four city walls on average, and the number of artillery pieces located in the west city wall was only nine, so it could not achieve the best effect, so Hou Defu chose the Type 85 heavy machine gun, although the heavy machine gun was not a sniper gun, but it was much more accurate than the smoothbore gun.

"The fire platoon, ready to meet the enemy's artillery, the artillery sight begins to measure the range." Hou Defu used the walkie-talkie to give the combat order.

The artillery sight of the 15th Brigade unfolded the artillery scope at the head of the city and observed the approaching artillerymen: "The target is 800 meters!" ”

The black-pressed intruders pushed the artillery cart with great difficulty and came slowly. These artillerymen were originally Ming troops, but after they were captured, because they were technical troops, they were very favored by the intruding army, and they were usually served with good food and drink, so they were also willing to work hard for the intruding army.

"Target 600 meters...!"

The sight keeper kept reporting the distance, but the intruder still had no intention of stopping.

"Target 500 meters...!"

The artillery finally stopped the artillery at this distance and made preparations for the shelling.

"The machine gunner obeys the order, target the enemy artillery, shoot!"

As soon as Hou Defu gave an order, the six Type 85 heavy machine guns located at the head of the city in the west suddenly rang out.

"Tong, Tongtong!"

"Tong, Tongtong, Tongtong!"

The machine gunners all used burst fire, and the 12.7 mm bullets rushed towards the intruders.

The blow came suddenly, and the artillery of the invading army could not have imagined that there was death calling them at such a distance.

"Puff, puff, puff!" The sound of bullets hitting flesh suddenly sounded in the crowd, and the intruders around the artillery carriage fell to the ground in piles, these intruders were very dense, and usually a bullet would penetrate several people.

"Thunderbolt!" When the bullet hits the bronze cannon body, it also crackles, resulting in ricochet bullets that fire in all directions.

The heavy bullet was so powerful that it struck the chest and waist, instantly breaking the person in two, hitting the limbs and breaking the hands and feet.

The artillery was stunned, only hearing the whistling of bullets, and could not understand what was going on, the surrounding area had become a slaughterhouse, with stumps and broken arms, internal organs scattered all over the ground, and the wounded fell to the ground and howled bitterly.

The inexplicable and sudden blow caused thousands of artillery soldiers to be at a loss. Not knowing how to deal with such a blow, they ran aimlessly, trying to dodge the Grim Reaper's reach for them.

After observing the dynamics of the invading army, Hou Defu ordered: "Change the armor-piercing incendiary bomb to target the enemy's gunpowder car." ”

The army's heavy machine guns were also equipped with armor-piercing incendiary grenades in case they were needed.

There are three main types of artillery trucks for the invasion army, one is loaded with artillery, and the other two are loaded with projectiles and gunpowder, and this powder truck is the target of armor-piercing incendiary bombs.

"Tong, Tongtong, Tongtong!"

Armor-piercing incendiary bombs were discharged one after another, rushing to the gunpowder carts of the invading artillery.

"Puff, puff, puff!"

One gun truck after another was hit, flames and smoke erupted, and after a few seconds, "Boom, boom! "The sound of huge explosions came continuously, and the artillery position of the army was like holding a grand fireworks show, which was spectacular.

With the continuous fire and explosion of the gunpowder wagon, the artillery crew of the artillery truck was torn apart or thrown into the air, and after a while, the artillery of the invading army was basically useless, and lost the ability to launch artillery bombardment on Guide.

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